Jiang says Putin's invasion of Ukraine cannot be explained by easy causes alone; he reads Putin as invoking a historical, sociological, and philosophical Russian civilizational problem.
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Civilizational WAR
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Jiang says Russian soldiers see the Ukraine war as a struggle for human civilization and the soul of humanity against what he describes as an antichrist civilizational force.
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"like this war in ukraine it's a really a war for human civilization it's really a war for the soul of humanity it they..."
"The last concept that we will look at today is, for them, the essence of life is to understand the mystery, miracle, and authority..."
"What Putin himself has said in multiple interviews is there are historical, sociological, philosophical issues at work here. And Westerners don't really understand what..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
Jiang treats the next Israel-Iran war not as another regional flare-up but as the real conflict the earlier 12-day war only rehearsed.
The lecture starts with Putin and Ukraine, but it does not stay in policy.
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